dark moon

Chapter 106 Deep sea or desert?

The building is composed of long strips of black stones. The texture of the stones is very special, and the hardness is not too high. With a little force, you can use a weapon to leave marks on it, but the marks left will return to the original within a few minutes. No traces can be seen, and no stone chips fall down no matter how much they are rubbed. No wonder these stones have not shown any signs of damage after being exposed to the wind and sun.

No one knows what kind of stone this is, not even the geological expert Moback can tell. It seems that it can only be a specialty of this world.

I don’t know where Macajerun pressed it a few times, and there was a sound of rubbing bricks and stones. The spire of the building automatically opened to one side, exposing the interior to the night.

Climbing up easily along the sixty-degree wall, sure enough, there is a spacious quadrilateral space under the spire. There is nothing in it, except for a metal ladder fixed there straight up and down.

"Mia, air detection."

"It's done, exactly the same as the outside world."

"Unexpectedly..." I didn't expect that the interior was not a sealed environment. I didn't know how the builder could prevent the all-pervasive fine sand from invading the interior of the building while ensuring the normal flow of air. "The breath-holding medicine is ready, don't be careless. Makajlen, Mobak.”

"I got it, boss." The two of them were old partners, so they jumped down without even walking up the vertical ladder and began to check the internal environment in case there were any traps.

"There are no signs of life, not even the undead." Before Xiuer could ask, Militi had already reported the result.

"There is no hostile reaction, it's very safe." Xiuer has always turned on the detection of hostility in his consciousness. Now he is finally relieved. He turned around and waved to the three people below, pointed to where he was standing, and signaled that the three of them would be there soon. It is guarded here so that when encountering irresistible danger, you can enter and escape as soon as possible.

"Safe, boss."

"Let's go down, Macajron, and mark the switch to close the door."

"Here." The halfling drew a small circle on the wall, and sure enough, there was a stone lever on the black stone wall.

"What kind of metal is this?" Shuer asked after jumping into the building and knocking on the vertical ladder.

"The rust-proofing treatment for the crudest iron products is also the roughest technology." Moback could tell the difference without even looking at it. "But the environment here makes it difficult to rust even if you want to. I don't know why they need to do the rust-proofing." rust."

"It won't always be like this, otherwise no living thing can live here." He shook his head and did not waste too much time on this. "Explore as quickly as possible to ensure the safety of the internal environment."

Opening a stone door locked by an iron chain, of course, there is a downward staircase behind it. The staircase is also made of stone, and the material is exactly the same as the outside.

The stairs extend downward one by one, each level is about four meters high. According to Shuer's guess, there should be five to six more levels. In total, it is buried quite deep.

Along the way, the general structure of each floor is exactly the same. There are four doors in the stairwell, leading to four different suites. Although the outer walls are tapered on four sides, the walls of the inner rooms are still vertical. The architectural habits are the same. Parvatija is not much different.The only difference between floors is the size of the suites. Even the number of houses is exactly the same.

Mobak and Mirity were left on guard in the stairwell to ensure that nothing would run into the rooms that had been checked. Shurmia and Macajron began to check the rooms one by one for magic traps, physical traps and I don't know if there will be toxins, but the three of them are responsible for one aspect each. This has been a habit developed through many years of cooperation.

However, what is disappointing or satisfying is that all the rooms are safe, there are no enemies, no traps, and there are not even strange items beyond everyone's understanding. This is a place where ordinary humanoids normally gather.

Each suite is filled with the most common daily items, beds, cabinets, tables and chairs. Although everything is made of stone, every item is closely related to life and has no particularity at all. As for its shadow-chasing value There is no need to even think about it.

"Nothing gained." After exploring the last room, everyone returned to the stairwell in disappointment. There was a door leading to the outside, but the outside had long been buried under tens of millions of tons of yellow sand. , it was impossible to open it again, so Mia simply asked Mia to find a way to seal it with earth magic.

"It's not a bad thing, at least we have a place to stay during the day." Xiuer simply ordered, "The lower you go, the cooler it is, but the farther you are from the exit, so it's not safe. We live on the third floor from the bottom, which is also under the sand. Even if the wind picks up, you won’t be directly exposed to the wind.”

"We'll go to the skeleton and have a look later. Macajron, you and Moback stay to protect Kelly. By the way, traps will be set up on each level. There is no need to attack, as long as it can serve as a warning."

"Boss, we don't have any objections to letting us stay. The problem lies with the pastor." Taking advantage of Kelly's absence, Macajron whispered, "You take too much care of her. Even if she is the client, but Is this necessary?"

"Be kind to her, don't reject her so much." In fact, Shuer has already discovered that the Shadow Chasers are very repulsive to Kelly. No one has even taken the initiative to talk to her, even if they talk passively, except Shuer. Also keep it as simple as possible.

This cannot be blamed on the Shadow Chasers, because it is the instinct of the Shadow Chasers to be wary of outsiders. Accepting her to join is already for the sake of Soul and the reward. It is normal to reject her, but it is strange to accept her. .Especially Markajlen, who joined the shadow-chasing team, but was only accepted after experiencing countless ordinary missions. Of course he had objections to Kelly who could shadow-chasing with his comrades when they first met.

Xiure didn't care about this at first. He just wanted to complete the task in the end, so he didn't remind everyone at the beginning. However, he thought of many things that night, and suddenly realized that maybe...Kelly was a little pitiful.

"Treat her a little better, at least be normal. After all, she is very likely..." Xiuer hesitated, and finally decided to hide some things for the time being. After all, he was not sure yet, "Anyway, don't be too harsh, the reason is here You will understand when the time comes." "No problem, captain, I listen to you, I will not care about Lord Offregen's grudges with her for the time being." Not only Macajron nodded in agreement, the dwarf also held up his beard and looked at He seemed to be heartless and said indifferently, "But, Captain, look at the fact that I sacrificed so much, did it happen when the spoils were distributed..."

"I will give you a little less." This was of course a joke. Soul patted the dwarf on the shoulder and squeezed his arm hard to express his gratitude.

"I don't care." Meridi blew on her fingers, "As long as she doesn't get in my way or get into trouble with me, I won't target her in particular. But she wants me to take the initiative to be nice to her. , Sorry, this is difficult.”

"Oh, that's fine, but you two probably don't have any grudges. Why are you so resistant to her?"

"Her skin is so good, this idiot exhibitionist is jealous." Mia coldly exposed the Necromancer's thoughts.

"You are flat-chested and want to try my methods again." Mility glared and snorted, "I still have a long break today, I don't mind teaching you a lesson."

"Huh? Of course I have no problem with you wanting to die." The magic power around Mia began to surge.

"Let's go, let's get to work." Not bothering to deal with the two crazy women who were beaten every few days and kept behind closed doors whenever they were beaten, Shuer turned around and left, "You two have set up a trap, let's first Up."

Returning to the ground, I found that after nearly an hour of inspection, the brightness outside had increased slightly. It seemed that dawn was not far away. Moria and the other three were still on the top floor, keeping alert at all times. Even Kelly, although due to the whole I didn't sleep all night and was low on energy, but I still managed to keep myself energetic so that I wouldn't doze off.

Sighing secretly, Xiuer handed her over to the two people who stayed behind, and pointed to the direction where he saw the huge rib just now: "Look, that's what I want to take a closer look at."

Standing on a high place, everyone finally saw what Xiu Er cared about. There were not only three ribs in that area, but a large piece of bones buried in it. The area covered was at least hundreds of meters, and a section of white bones was exposed every few meters.

As I got closer, I discovered that there were more bones than I imagined. Judging from the thickness, the owner of the bones must have been extremely large during his lifetime. These bones probably belonged to him.

In other words, if you put all the bones together, even if some are missing, you can completely restore the general shape of the corpse. This is not impossible, and Miridi is very good at doing this kind of thing.This is not meaningless. After understanding the general situation of the local creatures, follow-up actions can be made in a targeted manner. An experienced shadow chasing team will do this.

The problem was that it was too troublesome, and there was no time to waste it. It would take at least ten days just to dig out the bones of such a huge creature.However, there is still a simple method, which can barely guess the shape of the corpse, although it is not very reliable.

"Here, here." Mility waved her hand and called everyone over, "I found it, this area should be its skull area."

It has a flat and wide raised skull, a thick oblong lower jaw, a spine that is connected horizontally to the skull, plus a thick and long body.

"This thing... looks more and more like a whale." He held his chin and concluded with a wry smile.

"It's not surprising, considering that the undead we saw last night were all in the shape of fish." Mia said coldly, "Maybe before it became like this, this place was originally a deep sea."

"Then there are creatures similar to sea elves living in the house?" Shuer shook his head, "Unlikely. Don't forget that we just looked at the room. The furnishings inside are basically terrestrial items. At least they are not fixed to the ground. So, this won’t be the deep sea.”

"But these fish..." Mia pointed to the bones, "You can't explain it."

"Hey, there's good news." Moria suddenly jumped in front of Xiuer and said with a smile, "It's almost dawn."

"Uh, then what?"

"Then I can see farther and farther."

Xiuer blinked and suddenly twitched the corner of his mouth. He picked up Mia and threw her on the deer's back. He picked up Saff, who was confused, with one hand, and Miredi, who was still playing with the bones, with one hand. He turned around and ran away.

In the gradually whitening sky in the distance, black sand and dust roared, overwhelming the sky and the sun.

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